Scrap BEE, says new initiative
Polling shows that most South Africans do not believe that soft Apartheid-style race-based policy such as BEE is the best way to improve their lives.
Most people believe that more jobs and better education rather than more BEE – best described as ‘Blatant Elite Enrichment’ – is the answer.
If South Africa is to address widespread poverty and deficiencies in critical areas such as education – which deepen rather than relieve disadvantage in society – it must jettison BEE and scrap race as a proxy for disadvantage, and adopt more effective measures that address the actual problems that are holding millions of South Africans back.
Polling conducted for the Racism is NOT the problem initiative shows that most South Africans have scant faith in BEE.
The data shows that: